{"id":29020,"date":"2025-08-28T16:10:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29020\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T16:10:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T16:10:15","slug":"gambling-or-investing-in-america-the-line-is-increasingly-blurred","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/29020\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Economists and financiers have compared stockmarkets to gambling since 1936, when Keynes warned of \u201cthe capital development of a country becom[ing] a by-product of the activities of a casino\u201d. In 1999 Jack Bogle of Vanguard decried the \u201cWall Street casino\u201d where only croupiers got rich, and in 2023 Warren Buffett wrote that \u201cmarkets now exhibit far more casino-like behaviour than&#8230;when I was young\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Economists and financiers have compared stockmarkets to gambling since 1936, when Keynes warned of \u201cthe capital development of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[79,18,7803,19,17,188],"class_list":{"0":"post-29020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-finance-economics","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}